“It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner.”

— Wilson Mizner

On his later respectability.
Quoted by Stuart B. McIver, Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags, Pineapple Press, Sarasota, Florida, 1994. ISBN 1-56164-034-4.
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American writer 1876–1933

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